MACHU PICCHU: THE LOST CITY THE SPANISH NEVER FOUND

Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & PlacesIn this Mystery episode we focus on Machu Picchu — built by the Inca around 1450, occupied for roughly a century, and then abandoned so completely that the Spanish conquest destroyed the empire without ever knowing this city existed.This episode covers the Inca emperor Pachacuti and the extraordinary engineering he commanded, the current scholarly understanding of what Machu Picchu actually was — a royal estate rather than Bingham's lost city — the 1911 discovery by Hiram Bingham guided through the cloud forest by an eleven-year-old boy, and the questions that still remain about what it meant to the people who built it.Four centuries in the jungle. Perfectly intact.#HistoryMystery #MachuPicchu #IncaEmpire #AncientHistory #MysteryPodcast